THE ROMAN COLONIZATION OF BRITAIN: TWO POETIC INSIGHTS
Abstract
The poem draws on different translations of the description ofthe Battle of Mons Graupius by Tacitus the Roman historian.The account is found in Agricola, the eponymous biography ofJulia’s father, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, a Gallo-Roman militarycommander, pontiff and governor of Britannia. The battle took placein northern Britain in AD 83. Tacitus depicts the battle as endingresistance to the Roman conquest of Britain.References
Agricola, Tacitus
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (BY-NC-ND 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).